Pradeep Dalal

GEDNEY ON BELLOCQ

For many years I have noted down quotes, aphorisms, favorite bits from articles, essays and books and even TV interviews in little cvs notebooks and I return to these sometimes, now rarely as there are so many little notebooks and they are not organized. However, the photographer William Gedney (1933-1989) kept very detailed notebooks in

Pradeep Dalal

LEWIS BALTZ “PROTOTYPES” ON VIEW AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY, WASHINGTON, DC UNTIL JULY 31, 2011

I apologize for the long silence – I was overwhelmed by exhibitions and other deadlines, but hopefully I have a few new things to share from visits to the Catherine Opie show at the ICA in Boston, and the Grazia Toderi installations at the Hirshhorn, and the superb Lewis Baltz show at the National Gallery

Pradeep Dalal

DAVID MALJKOVIC RIFFS ON FRANZ KAFKA AND ORSON WELLES

Croatian artist, David Maljkovic says that a lot has changed in Zagreb where he lives and where Orson Welles filmed “The Trial” in the early 1960’s. In his project “Recalling Frames” which has been on view at Metro Pictures for the past month (it ends today – sorry for alerting you so late!) he combines

Pradeep Dalal

Susanne Kriemann and Victor Hasselblad

Photographers have a pretty intense relationship with their cameras. I remember reading that it took Dianne Arbus over a year to get used to her Rolleiflex when she changed cameras (the Met show in 2005). I am taken aback when I inventory the cameras I have used over the years: several Nikon FM’s, Leica M6,

Pradeep Dalal

SPOMENIK BY BELGIAN ARTIST JAN KEMPENAERS

A few months ago a promising young artist - and recent Bard/ICP graduate – Pierre Le Hors told me that one the most interesting books he had seen at the NY Artist Book Fair at PS1 was “Spomenik” by Belgian artist Jan Kempenaers. He sent me a link to the website of the superb Roma

Pradeep Dalal

TWO PROJECTS: NINAR ESBER AND CATHERINE PONCIN AT THE DARAT AL FUNUN IN AMMAN, JORDAN

Last month I visited India to work on a new project in Nagaur and on my way back to New York, I stopped for a few days in Amman, Jordan and visited an alternative art space called Darat al Funun – a series of houses and lovely gardens and courtyards on a side of a

Abigail Simon

Nothing New Under the Sun?

Let us pause for a moment to consider the contractions and permutations that occur as ideas pass through the distended digestive tract that is our culture. These transformations require constant attention and updating, which is why there are so many people gainfully employed trying to define such unanticipated (and un-anticipatable) transitional forms as “man repeller”

Abigail Simon

[caption id="attachment_750" align="alignleft" width="225"] The beautiful Angelina Jolie as interpreted by anonymous subway dadaist[/caption]                   The museums of this City have a lot to live up to: they are the Brangelinas and Britneys of the art universe, and, when the minutiae of one’s daily existence is subject

Abigail Simon

The term “portrait” as generally understood, comes with a contingent assumption of specificity: it is assumed to be "of" someone, a specific person at a certain moment in time. We are by now familiar, in the rarefied air of our fine-art-ness, with the usual interrogations of this assumption: can we ever really know anything about